Though it suffered some critical disinterest and then resentment following its host of Oscar nods (including one for Best Picture), I’m from the school of leaving it alone – it’s a delightful, if misunderstood, movie. Featuring a cast from all sorts of countries (let’s see – France, the U.S., Sweden…), Chocolat is getting Then and Now treatment!

It’s been a mere seven years since the Lord of the Rings trilogy wrapped up, but I figured I would devote a Then and Now posting to the epic cast (at least a portion of them) to both catch up with what they’ve been up to in the past near-decade and take a gander at some of their earliest work. So, though the likes of Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, etc. have been left off (it’s a giant cast, folks) here is Lord of the Rings, Then and Now…

Having just discovered this sorta silly but definitely entertaining gem recently, it seemed only fitting that a return to the Then and Now series would very much suit this very cast-driven bitchy-fest. Following the goings-on and melodrama of a soap opera set, Soapdish features a cast of well-knowns that seems almost impossible to achieve considering the ridiculous content. But I’m very thankful that they were assembled. So here we go – the cast of Soapdish in their earliest (or at least earliest to find footage of) and latest work.

It’s been an awfully long time since I’ve gotten around to a “Then and Now” column (that E.T. post was AGES ago!), but I’d like to present to you a little retrospective on the cast of the far too underrated film adaptation of the classic TV series, The Addams Family. It’s terribly funny and a perfectly kooky dark comedy. From Pugsley and Wednesday to Gomez and Morticia (isn’t this one of Anjelica Huston’s best characters?), the movie is a gem. Here are the cast members – back in the day and more recently. (And since we’ve recently covered both Christopher Lloyd’s “Then and Now” and Dana Ivey’s entire career, they’re absent here.)

In honor of one of film’s most beloved sci-fi classics, I give you the latest retrospective from the series Then and Now on Steven Spielberg’s E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial. Now, the difficulty faced with a film like this is that for some of the younger actors, this was one of their first films. So they don’t look so different from the time they filmed E.T. And without further ado…

One of my all-time favorite movies (as you’ll likely note as the Top 100 countdown soldiers on), has got to be Steven Spielberg’s underrated and downright fun blockbuster, Jurassic Park. It has amazing rewatchability, it’s buoyed by some great line readings from a stellar, if random, cast of characters, and it’s adapted very well from the fantastic and original novel by Michael Crichton. So take a look below to see your favorite ragtag group of dinosaur-enthusiasts in their early work, as well as some of their recent work.